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Originally Posted by Skybird

That I doubt. The distances are too big. If assuming that said species would need to find not just any planet, but a planet within a given range of physical and chemical settings that are vital for said species, then the distances would even become bigger and the choices fewer. for comparison, even if we would consider the speed of light (which would mean any object travelling with the speed of light gaining infinite mass, so in our theories lightspeed cannot be reached), the next star to us, Alpha Centauri, still would be 4.4 years away - at lightspeed, mind you.

I was thinking of species like the Hydra which appears to be biologically immortal. Hypothetically speaking if a intelligent species were to evolve from one and become space faring travel for them would just be a question of filling the time to get there not would you have died of old age when the ship gets there.

the first: yes, but then why not go all the way and delete the vulnerable, maintenance-intensive organic parts alltogether? that'S what would make a cyborg a full machine.

Long term adaptation and evolution in different environments. Radiation tends to destroy the electronic while causes mutation and diversity in the organic.

And "vice versa"? What do you mean?

I guess the scarier possibility is robots creating humanoids to serve them.

Hardly, a purely mechanical device hardly would incorporate the calculation precision needed to "colonize space" - because colonization would need to hit not just the moon nearby, but planets far away. Mind you how long it took us to even find the first planet around another sun - and what ammount of high technology and computer and electroinic and advanced physics was necessary for that.

Calculating flights in a solar system is very possible using a mechanical computer and some astogation. Flights to other stars become shots in the dark (No idea what is there) but technologically feasible.

Endless - probabaly not, since some things simply do not go together...

There is probably a communist planet out there somewhere where all the bizarre contradictions come true.

With the images and ideas we have at present about physics and technology, I think we are encapsuled within very tight limits to what is possible for us. If man reaches just the planets within eyesight in our solar system, let's say as far away as Juptier, maybe Saturn - then this already would be a success that might bepossibole for us in a distant future, but that I already do not take for granted.